Pricing of Catastrophe Insurance Options Under Immediate Loss Reestimation

Biagini, Francesca ; Bregman, Yuliya und Meyer-Brandis, Thilo (2008): Pricing of Catastrophe Insurance Options Under Immediate Loss Reestimation. In: Journal of Applied Probability, Bd. 45, Nr. 3: S. 831-845

Abstract

We specify a model for a catastrophe loss index, where the initial estimate of each catastrophe loss is reestimated immediately by a positive martingale starting from the random time of loss occurrence. We consider the pricing of catastrophe insurance options written on the loss index and obtain option pricing formulae by applying Fourier transform techniques. An important advantage is that our methodology works for loss distributions with heavy tails, which is the appropriate tail behavior for catastrophe modeling. We also discuss the case when the reestimation factors are given by positive affine martingales and provide a characterization of positive affine local martingales.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Mathematik, Informatik und Statistik > Mathematik > Finanz- und Versicherungsmathematik
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 510 Mathematik
• ISSN: 0021-9002
• Sprache: Englisch